different between wether vs shearling

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?ð?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?ð?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)
• Homophones: weather, whether (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).

Alternative forms

• wedder (dialectal)

Noun

wether (plural wethers)

1. A castrated buck goat.
2. A castrated ram.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i^[1]:

     I am a tainted wether of the flock,

     Meetest for death […]

Derived terms

• bellwether

Translations

Verb

wether (third-person singular simple present wethers, present participle wethering, simple past and past participle wethered)

1. (transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

wether

1. Archaic spelling of weather.
   • (cited after Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1866, p. 8)

Anagrams

• reweth

English

Etymology

From Middle English scherling; equivalent to shear +? -ling.

Noun

shearling (plural shearlings)

1. A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
2. (chiefly US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth

   Her coat was lined with shearling.

Coordinate terms

• roughy
• clippy
• wether
• hog

See also

• shearling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ashlering, narghiles, nargilehs